HERE 2 HELP: Ways to support isolated medical professionals, seniors and patients with this amazing Houston-based initiative

Hope, Arts for All creations. (Be the Peace Be the Hope - Facebook)

HOUSTON – Medical professionals, seniors and patients isolated due to the coronavirus are in much need of our support during these times.

If you wish to make their days a little brighter, a Houston-based non-governmental arts organization, along with other arts groups and schools around the world, has created an initiative to do just that.

Recommended Videos



Be the Peace Be the Hope, a collective of the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts hopes to inspire, send relief, spark joy and create a chain of hope and solidarity to battle against fear and hopelessness in the face of the pandemic through its HeArts for Hope, Arts for All initiative.

To join them in their efforts and send your support, you can make one of the following creations:

  • Create a heart design
  • Write a message or poem of no more than 150 words
  • Send music, no longer than 2:30 minutes
  • Send a video, no longer than 1:30 minutes

All creations should be emailed to bepeacebehope@gmail.com. For larger files, it is recommended to send them as a Dropbox or Google Drive link.

The organizations will digitally deliver the creations to medical professionals, seniors isolated in nursing homes and hospitalized patients battling with COVID-19 around the world.

For more information about the Houston-based initiative, visit bepeacebehope.com.

View the heart designs gallery here.


More coronavirus coverage

Harris County heat map shows coronavirus cases by ZIP code

We’ve got answers to 75 of your health and financial coronavirus questions

KPRC 2 reporter Haley Hernandez answers questions readers are sending her every day

Resources for Texans who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic

Who is getting coronavirus in the Houston area? We’ve crunched the data in these charts

This is when each state is expected to peak in deaths from coronavirus

This is what the coronavirus spread looks like right now across the world right now

Find all the ways you can help local businesses in Houston on our Support Local page

Share your favorite takeout food in Houston on our pins page dedicated to takeout food

All the coronavirus news can be found at our page dedicated to everything you need to know

Sign up for a daily newsletter on coronavirus news and Haley Hernandez’s health inbox newsletter

Sign up for our text service and get your coronavirus questions answered


About the Author: